APG5052 Special topic in digital media and communication
Faculty of Arts
APG5052 Special topic in digital media and communication is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2025. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2026 entry.
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Requisites
Before APG5052
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After APG5052
No unit lists APG5052 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Overview
In the unit, students will engage in a specialised course of study examining a cutting-edge development in communication and media. In each year of offering, the unit will address a different question or topic within the general field of digital media, developing specialist insight, as appropriate to the expertise of the media researcher or industry practitioner engaged to teach it. The unit will have a strong research focus, which may include experimental development of a professional or industry practice. Students will be expected to bring their work to a point of intersection with the most recent work addressing problems emerging in media studies scholarship or practices in media and communication industries.
Offerings in 2025
The 2025 handbook lists no offerings for APG5052.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Critically analyse the most recent developments in Communications and Media, through engaging with an emerging problem or question in the field;
- 2
Contribute original thinking to produce innovative solutions to contemporary problems in communication and media;
- 3
Articulate the ethical values relevant in the rapid development of communication and media with particular attention to the impact of digital technologies;
- 4
Utilise research skills to evaluate issues in the field and communicate findings in a professional context.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Maura Edmond
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Maura Edmond
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5052?
APG5052 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is APG5052 offered?
APG5052 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
How much work is APG5052?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.